baking soda ant cure

[Grog]

There have been several posts about ants so here is a link we have used to END some ant issues have fun with it and good luck.

http://plantedspace.com/howto/maintain/item/37-organic-ant-control-with-baking-soda

 

[Rich386]

NEAT I will have to try that!

 

[JanetS]

Putting baking soda and sugar on my shopping list.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

The digestive system - this part of an ant is used for digesting an ants food.When food is eaten,it passes on to the food pouch.This is where the juices are sqeezed out of the food.

The ant swallows the juice and spits out the solid part.The liquid goes to the crop,or social stomach.

An ant will regurgitate (spit out) from its crop to feed other ants.Some food goes to the midgut,where its digested.The undigested food passes out of the rectum.

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5164970_do-ants-digest-food.html

Adult ants cannot digest solid foods.

Therefore, everything they eat has to be turned into a liquid before it enters the digestive tract.

When the ant eats a piece of food, digestive juices interact with the solid outside of the ant's mouth and dissolve the solid food into digestible liquid.

The ant then laps up the food with its tongue.

Filtering
The food goes through the ant's mouth into a chamber below that houses a filter. The filter makes sure no solids are allowed to progress. The solids in the chamber are compressed into one pellet, which the ant then spits out.​

 

[stefansmomma]

Actually it does work. I've used it for years. As far as the exploding thing posted, the REST of the post on the website clarifies that statement

Quote: Perhaps not so dramatic, in reality the gas will just accumulate slowly until the insect collapses.

 

[Megan Amber]

This such a great idea! I am so going to use that, thanks for posting!!

As far as do ants explode or not.....I don't know, but I saw one implode one time!!